The Conclusion: Pipe Masters

IN case you had forgotten the Billabong Pipe Masters is on today and in all likelihood we will crown a World Champion.

This World Champion will either be Kelly Slater or Joel Parkinson and they could meet in the final, that much is certain. The rest is conjecture but this one matters: for Kelly it would be 12 world titles and Parko it would be title number 1.

The way that the points are structured (with surfers being able to drop their two worst results) if Kelly makes one more round, that is into the Quarterfinals, Parko must beat him.